Example sentences of "it have [be] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far back as can be traced it has been a village of yeomen , small independent farmers , and never since medieval times an estate village ruled by one big landowner , though for a period in the 18th and 19th centuries the Grimston family of Kilnwick and later the Hothams of South Dalton acquired some farms . |
| 2 | Speaking after the result Mr Sillars said : ‘ Obviously the SNP is very disappointed with this result … but it has been a privilege to be your MP for more than three years . ’ |
| 3 | It has been a privilege to ‘ join in ’ in Cranham in a very small way with what God is doing . |
| 4 | It has been a privilege to be entrusted with the preparation of this report , and a joy to renew contact with so many of our year . |
| 5 | It has been a year of controversy for Brady as the club has still to decide on whether to move to a new home at Cambuslang or remain at Celtic Park . |
| 6 | It has been a year of continuing economic difficulty for solicitor and client alike . |
| 7 | It has been a year of change for the Mechanics Institute which has seen its crumbling headquarters re-vamped into a fashionable pub . |
| 8 | Sometimes it has been a case of seeing something done really well and it inspires us to do it even better . |
| 9 | But it has been a case of getting better at managing the cash ; better at keeping down the costs . |
| 10 | Yet we must be careful before blaming politicians for this mundane campaign , since in many respects it has been a reflection of ourselves . |
| 11 | It has been a friend for a long time . ’ |
| 12 | It has been a tactic of both supporters and opponents of economic and monetary union to play down the significance of these proposals , the first saying that monetary union will not significantly compromise sovereignty , the others sometimes dismissing talk of European union as nothing more than Euro-waffle . |
| 13 | To Leninists , however , it has been a development with profoundly asymmetrical effects . |
| 14 | It has been a lack of progress on other fundamental changes in society that has made effective implementation of either programme so difficult . |
| 15 | It has been a mistake of many developments in MIS to concentrate on solutions in the form of computer packages such as Schools Information and Management Systems ( SIMS ) in the school sector or Further Education Management Information System ( FEMIS ) in the FE sector . |
| 16 | It has been a thrill as a member of the Development Group to witness the work already being carried out by Ronnie Martin and his team . |
| 17 | The beauty of the flower is transcendent , and it has been a part of man 's heritage since the beginning . |
| 18 | It has been a feature of English commercial and legal practice for at least 250 years . |
| 19 | It has been a couple of years since master fly-tyer Pat Mulholland held court on the Wellington College campus , but I can tell you that if fly-tying is what you want to learn , then this will be the best £26 you ever invested . |
| 20 | What is already clear is that it has been a success in developing our own AI-skilled personnel . |
| 21 | Rather , it has been a question of what he should leave out . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , you could say it has been a bit of an embarrassing muddle . |
| 23 | He was so strong a character — and he meant so much to me — that although it 's many many years since I worked with him , he was in a way always there — it has been a strength in reserve — that there was Basil if you needed him . |
| 24 | For the rest of us , it has been a matter of being lucky enough to live near a decent State school . |
| 25 | It has been a matter of controversy whether the non-associative kinds of learning are really learning at all , and if so , whether they do not really take place by the same general mechanisms as associative learning . |
| 26 | Third , it has been a matter of concern to the DES that an authority could promote advanced courses secure in the knowledge that , once in operation , the major proportion of the cost would be chargeable against the pool . |
| 27 | In Marxist thought and practice this relation is posed as one between class and party , and it has been a matter of controversy since the end of the nineteenth century , expressed in the most diverse forms , extending from Michels ' reflections upon the ‘ iron law of oligarchy ’ to Lenin 's conception of the Bolshevik Party , theoretically elaborated by Lukács . |
| 28 | It has been a matter of debate because there are those in the council who feel that if you put in a contingency provision it will be spent whether it 's needed or not . |
| 29 | It has been a result of the raising of working-class attainment , not the lowering of middle-class attainment ( McPherson and Willms , 1987 ) . |
| 30 | In so far as bureaucratic power has become a problem for modern democracy , it has been a result of the inadequacies of political control as much as the internal features of bureaucracies themselves . |